Marie Jost, who has been missing since the 1980s, owns this dilapidated property in rural Portage County. This photo was taken in November before clean up began.

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B.C. Kowalski
Stevens Point Journal Media

Officials finished the first phase of cleanup last week on the unsanitary property of Charles Jost while Portage County investigators still wait to find details on bone fragments found at the rural Amherst site.

Jost, along with Ronald and Dolores Disher, await trial in a case in which they are accused of cashing their missing mother's Social Security checks. Jost and the Dishers are scheduled for a pretrial conference Jan. 2.

Portage County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the disappearance of Marie Jost, and her son, Theodore Jost, 74, both of whom authorities believe are dead. ...